Practical DV Filmmaking (2nd Edition) by Russell Evans

By Russell Evans

Written for the newbie, sensible DV Filmmaking courses you thorough the method of creating a movie with inexpensive electronic gear: from improvement via to construction, post-production and distribution. whereas the technical instruments you wish are totally defined, the booklet concentrates on filmmaking rules all through, illustrating how those instruments can be utilized to accomplish stylistic methods for leading edge filmmaking.

The publication assumes no heritage wisdom in both know-how or filmmaking and is split into 4 key areas:
*DEVELOPMENT: flip your concept right into a manageable script, storyboard and schedule.
*PRODUCTION: enhance talents to shoot unique brief motion pictures and switch a zero-to-low finances for your advantage.
*POST-PRODUCTION: examine simple enhancing thoughts to augment your unique thought utilizing iMovie, most suitable and different renowned tools.
*DISTRIBUTION: manage an internet site and use the web to advertise your movie. comprises a number of hyperlinks to invaluable web pages. Plus, most sensible suggestions for the way to go into a movie pageant and a brand new bankruptcy on constructing a career.

Projects make it easier to grasp each one step of the method taking you thru various points of filmmaking this day. steadily you will discover out the place your strengths lie and the way to utilize them. The ebook additionally encourages stylistic improvement through intruding theoretical techniques to filmmaking. A thesaurus of phrases plus an appendix of assets make this advisor a one-stop crucial guide to DV filmmaking perform for newbies and scholar filmmakers.

* grasp not pricey filmmaking rules with effortless step by step strategies and useful projects
* increase a true international standpoint via case stories and interviews with winning filmmakers
* mix technical knowledge with stylistic methods to filmmaking.

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We could call this process ‘compression–decompression’, shortened to ‘codec’, to describe the various ways we have of 36 Practical DV Filmmaking doing it. Many companies produce codecs for use with video and each use the standards that MPEG established. Some are good for one type of movie, others better for other types. MPEG The Emmy Award-winning MPEG group worked out several methods of compressing data for moving images and came up with a few different standards. Let’s take a look at the main ones: MPEG-1 This is a popular method used for encoding video for CD-ROM and for VCD, the format widely used in Asia.

For example, if you meet a few friends and decide to put them in this film, you can shoot straight at them by putting them in the middle of the frame, which is going to look dull, or you can get a more interesting shot. Home movies and tourist movies put people in the middle, but filmmakers want more in their shots and so may move these people slightly to the side so that we see a few other elements of the scene. So, set up your friends so that the arrangement looks less predictable; then set the focus automatically; then turn it off and see what happens.

Let’s suppose you start filming in your kitchen in the early morning. You may have a couple of fluorescent lights in the room and some semblance of daylight entering from the window. You have two problems to deal with here: the first involving the intensity of the light within the room and the second concerning the colour temperature of the light. A lack of intensity of light is easy to deal with on set simply by adding more light, but at home you are going to have to get the iris control and try various settings until you have what looks like a good image on the LCD monitor.

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